{"product_id":"9781784745677","title":"Question 7","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel . . . Question 7 sets the high-water mark for what the genre [of memoir] can be' Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'There's so much . . . in Flanagan's beautiful, unclassifiable novel-cum-memoir . . . That it is a masterpiece is without question' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about the choices we make and the chain reaction that follows . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'I was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work... I can think of nothing else quite like it' Sarah Perry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Mighty in its rage and tenderness: his most momentous book yet' Laura Cumming\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Spectacular . . . It seems to me a book that will have an overwhelming effect on readers. It certainly did on me' Colm Tóibín\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Question 7 could be Richard Flanagan's greatest yet' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Fiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down' Mark Haddon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRichard Flanagan, Winner of the Booker Prize 2014\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chatto \u0026 Windus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48226738045163,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":40.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781784745677-1.jpg?v=1781703047","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781784745677","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}